“Ordinary": a magazine that covers the mundane, overlooked, marginal and forgettable. The mission is to locate what is so necessary and poignant about this startlingly large category. And, there has to be something necessary and poignant about it; the amount of time, space and energy occupied by the peripheral is too vast to not be meaningful.

The layouts are created digitally and then I draw each page in graphite in an attempt to distance the work from the slick, polished qualities inherent in computer generated images and text.

606 words (breadcrumb-like navigation can be unreliable due to the unstable — and sometimes delicious — nature of the trail marker)

A previous drawing piece generated a set of 606 index cards, each with a word and a number.

Taken as a whole ordered set, the cards spell out the text from the previous drawing. Taken individually, a single card implies a fragment of a great whole, the number indicating a sequence and the word taken out of the context of a sentence or paragraph.

I entered each word in this set of 606 words (generated by a previous project) into the Google image search engine and took the Google image that corresponded to the number on the card as the basis for a small drawing. The 606 image/card pairings reflect myriad approaches to visualizing a word—there are images that are humorous, elegant, abstract, non-sensical, mysterious, familiar and banal.